setup smoothwall
 

I need to know how to set this up physically and network config. I have the smoothwall on a pc with 2 nics, one is red and the other green. for the green that would be for my internal lan and also connected to my wireless N router, the red goes to my ATT 2wire modem. please tell me if this is wrong. the att modem port 1 would be connected to the Red nic of the Smoothie, smoothie is set as DHCP on the red nic, the green nic is set static for ip address 192.168.10.5, subnet 255.255.255.0 and the gateway is 192.168.10.1, the 192.168.10.1 is the trendnet's wireless N router ip address. this will be connected to the green interface via pc port #1 not WAN port of the router, then on the trend net port #2 will go to a 8port dumb switch that will connect to the other pcs on the LAN. I really want to have the LAN devices to have static addresses not dynamic as i run a lot apps for port forwarding on the LAN so i need these to stay static. I just need to know the physical setup is sound and also the network config of smoothwall.

Smoothwall is not designed to run on two NIC's. I believe if you want to, you need to purchase the smoothhost module for it. But there should be no need to. Make your LAN IP's default gateway the SW, and make the SW gateway the router.

yes you can
 

that is not true it works fine now. i got it to work with 2 nics how else would you set it up. you have to have 2 nics to pass traffice thru the firewall.

Gow,

If all clients use the SW as the gateway, and the SW gateway is your DSL router... Firewall is achieved as all traffic must pass through the smoothwall.

We may be talking about different products here, I am referring to smoothwall ie http://www.smoothwall.net. Maybe you are using a free version?

I opened a ticket with Smoothwall support about three years ago and their technician told me that the system was designed to run off one NIC. If you want the actual copy of the e-mail I can try to dig it up